Audacity Forum

Welcome to one of the restrictions of USB microphones. You can't easily separate the computer noise from the microphone by more than about 6 feet (2M). Broadcast analog microphones can go hundreds of feet. Getting rid of echoes, hiss and other noises should be done at the shooting step, not later in...

So does that make the quality outcome of iTunes encoder better?

There's discussion about that. Koz

Why are you converting your FLAC recordings to anything? Both AAC and MP3 are delivery formats. Deliver the product to the client or personal music player and full stop. Generally, no further editing or production is possible without some sound damage.

Koz

FFMpeg is free, work-alike software.
iTunes uses real compression licenses, such as Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for MP3.

Koz

Using the drop-downs for Recording and Playback on the main Audacity window, make sure both are switched to your USB Audio Device. That's pretty much it. When you close Audacity, the sound settings should go back to where you have them in Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound...etc. Remember...

Do you refer to an Effect? I don't see one with the name Settle. With nothing recorded (or just room tone), the middle of the blue waves should be zero as measured on the left-hand scale. With reference to this illustration, the waves on the left are defective. When they get done wiggling up and do...

I got rid of a lot of the very small looking clicks in otherwise silent parts by drag selecting them and applying Amplify at -20dB to them, driving the signal to 0 amplitude for all intents. I hope I didn't generate more bumps. That's what Control-L does, except it actually goes to zero. The bottom...

You should be able to get rid of them as an emergency measure by drag-selecting each one and silencing it with Control-L.

Koz

No, you're not being too picky. Those transition bumps should not be there. You can get problems like that if your two individual sounds do not "match," but you don't seem to fall into any of the usual suspects. You get the bumps in silent portions of the files. Normally, that happens when...

Mic-In on a Windows laptop is very delicate and overloads very easily producing popping and cracking in the track -- even if you reduce the sound level to avoid overload. Oh, and the connection is usually mono, not stereo. It's designed to do this, and pretty much only this: http://kozco.com/tech/au...